Faceted Jade a.k.a Carven Jade [ENG Translation]

CHAPTER 22 (I)

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He, Fu Changling, had been in love with Qin Yan for at least forty-two years.
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"Kill me?" Fu Changling stared at the person in front of him, and he couldn't help but burst out laughing. "You want to kill me again?"

"Fu Changling," Qin Yan said, tightening his grip on his sword, "sober up."

"Sober up? Sober up for what?" Fu Changling raised his voice sharply, "Sober up and listen to you telling me that I can't unseal the secret realm, that I will destroy Yunze, and tell me not to save Yan Ming?"

Saying so, Fu Changling twirled his palm, and the formation beneath him suddenly began to spin rapidly. At the same time, the Spirit-Gathering Pagoda started to amass spiritual power like crazy, and Qin Yan's expression finally changed. He executed a clean sweep with his long sword without mercy. However, the moment he swung his sword, it was full of resistance. This was the effect of the One Heart talisman. With gritted teeth, Qin Yan carried the sword with the help of his spiritual power. During the confrontation between the two, he gritted his teeth and let his spiritual power surge to the tip of his sword one last time. Then the resistance on the sword finally dissipated, and the sword came roaring. Just as Fu Changling's head was about to be chopped off, he gently lifted his hand and clamped Qin Yan's sword between his two fingers.

Without looking up, he traced over the formation on the ground, saying calmly, "You have broken the spell by force, and your body has been injured. I am the master of this Ten Directions Gods-Slaying Formation, and I do not wish to cause you any harm. I'll break through the formation in a moment, and my Jindan will be gone, making it easy for you to kill me."

"Stop," Qin Yan swallowed the upwelling blood, "you are now being possessed by a Heart Demon. Turn around and take another look at what Yan Ming truly is."

"Possessed by a Heart Demon?" These words caused Fu Changling to stop what he was doing. A moment later, he looked at the formation and gave a low chuckle as if he had heard something funny, "Yan Ming is a Heart Demon, but you are not?"

"Fu Changling..." Qin Yan's face was pale as he gasped for breath and said, "The Xuanji Secret Realm cannot be unsealed. If you unseal it, the common people of Yunze will..."

"What do you care about the lives of Yunze's common people?" Fu Changling turned his head to look at him, his eyes full of sarcasm. "If you cared about the lives of Yunze's common people, would you have colluded with the Karma Prison and secretly unsealed it, allowing those demon cultivators to come to Yunze and wreak havoc, plunging the living into the abyss of suffering?"

Qin Yan's eyes suddenly widened at these words, and Fu Changling stared at him intently, as if he were a dead soul who had crawled out of hell. "Would you have practised demonic cultivation, betrayed your sect, killed your Shīfù and fellow disciples, built the Immaculate Palace, and become Sui Yan MoJun if you cared about the lives of Yunze's common people?"

"If you truly cared about the lives of Yunze's common people, if you truly had such a saintly heart, why didn't you take pity on me then?!" Fu Changling abruptly raised his voice and grabbed Qin Yan by the sleeve. He stared fiercely at him, but there was a faint glint in his eyes. He knelt on the ground in the same manner as the youngster who had first encountered Yan Ming in the blizzard.

But this time his tears were real tears that no medicine could cure, and his anguish was the anguish of two lifetimes that no one could alleviate.

He grabbed Qin Yan's clothes and hissed at him, "You've ruined my life! You've already ruined my whole life! Now, isn't that enough?!"

"Let me go," his voice choked with emotion, "let Yan Ming go..."

Qin Yan couldn't come up with anything to say.